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...Conqueror (RKO Radio...
Amidst his preparations to lead a New Zealand expedition to the Antarctic in December, Sir Edmund Hillary, beekeeper and co-conqueror of Mount Everest, spread the word that he has a vacancy for one newshawk in his party. But the billet has some apron strings attached to it. The extraordinary newshawk he wants will first have to earn a diploma from the New Zealand army's School of Cooking and Bakery-and then be man enough to slave through long polar days and nights over both a hot typewriter and a hot stove...
...Conqueror (RKO Radio). An American traveler in Central Asia once asked a Mongolian herdsman where America was. "In West Russia," he replied. This picture, which purports to be based on the life of the young Genghis Khan, carries a strong suggestion that, to Hollywood's way of thinking, Mongolia is in the western U.S. The part of the "Perfect Warrior"-a man who became a supreme statesman and lawgiver as well as the most formidable military genius in Asiatic history-is played by Hollywood's best-known cowboy, John Wayne. And does he gallop across the steppe...
...When he was still a boy, he murdered one of his halfbrothers, and before his death at 65, his armies had slaughtered millions from the Dnieper to the China Sea. Wayne's performance should go a long way toward paying the old warrior back. He portrays the great conqueror as a sort of cross between a square-shootin' sheriff and a Mongolian idiot. The idea is good for a couple of snickers, but after that it never Waynes but it bores...
Late Date. Conqueror after conqueror followed the Romans across the beachheads of the vulnerable Mediterranean island, but none bothered to investigate the mineral riches that lay beneath its soil. In 1912 the chance visit of an American geologist to a New York Public Library led to their rediscovery...